When Christians read Brian McLaren’s book A New Kind of Christian, they have one of two reactions: either they recoil because he is challenging…
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown, 2003)
“What I mean,” Teabing countered, “is that almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false.”The Da Vinci Code (p.235) Introduction The controversy…
Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body (Lilian Barger, 2003)
The issue of the place of women in society and the church will not go away. The way one works out their understanding of…
The Reenchantment of Nature (Alister McGrath, 2002)
Why is Christianity being blamed for the rape of the environment and seen as the cause of the ecological disasters we seem to be…
Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
One of the formative experiences of my spiritual pilgrimage involved reading The Universe Next Door by James Sire. It helped me understand what a…
The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity
When my copy of The Greco-Roman World arrived, I scanned the table of contents and the first page, as I always do with new…
The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America (Os Guiness, 2001)
More than once in these pages we have recommended this series of study guides, and we remain convinced that though the marketplace is awash…
God’s Plans for You (J.I. Packer, 2001)
I have only been in J. I. Packer’s presence once. He lectured at a conference, and I approached him afterwards with a question. “Oh,…
Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible
A Christian can not be truly discerning without Bible study. That’s why we sometimes refer to Ransom’s goal as helping believers gain skill in…
Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes?
Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? edited by John F. Kilner, Rebecca D. Pentz, & Frank E. Young (Grand Rapids, MI: William…